Balanced sentence

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A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structure of approximately the same length and importance.

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1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two Cities)^[1]
2. "White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"^[1]

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